Thomas Sandberg

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Thomas Sandberg (born November 7, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German photographer and appointed member of the German Society for Photography . He works as a freelance photographer and lecturer in photography and is head of the Ostkreuzschule photography school.

biography

Sandberg, son of the graphic artist and publicist Herbert Sandberg , completed his photographic training from 1969 at DEWAG Werbung Berlin, later at Neue Berliner Illustrierte with Jochen Moll , for whom he worked as a photo journalist from 1972 to 1989 .

From 1982 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under Horst Thorau and Peter Pachnicke and in 1987 graduated as a photographer .

Since 1990 he has worked as a freelance photographer for international journals and magazines, including Stern , Der Spiegel , Business Week , New York Times and Sunday Times . In the same year he founded the Ostkreuz photo agency together with Sibylle Bergemann , Jens Rötzsch , Harald Hauswald , Ute and Werner Mahler and Harf Zimmermann .

In 1997 he invented the topixx database system , which also enables freelance photographers to sell their pictures over the Internet.

In 1997/98 he accompanied the SPD candidate for Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as a photographer during the election campaign up to his election as Federal Chancellor .

In 2003 he was a lecturer for photo reportage at the Photography Academy on Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.

Since 2005 he has been the director of the Ostkreuz School for Photography in Berlin-Weißensee , which he founded together with Werner Mahler.

Since the beginning of the 2000 years own projects in the field of artistic photography.

Exhibitions

  • "East sees West / West sees East." German Historical Museum 1990
  • “Die Judenschule”, Gallery F92, Berlin 2011
  • “Die Judenschule”, Museum Synagogue Gröbzig, 2011
  • “Die Judenschule”, Galerie Haus 23, Cottbus, 2012
  • “Remembrance of Ahrenshoop”, contribution to the group exhibition Tarantel-2, Künstlerhaus Bethanien , 2013
  • “The Jewish School”, Jewish Museum Westphalia , Dorsten, 2014
  • “Remembrance of Ahrenshoop”, Kunsthalle Rostock , nominated for the art prize of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 2014
  • “Remembrance of Ahrenshoop”, Art Cabinet of the Bunten Stube, Ahrenshoop, 2016
  • "Thomas Sandberg - Résonances", Collection Regard / Marc Barbey 2016, curated by Antonio Panetta

Collections with works by Thomas Sandberg

literature

  • Gert Prokop: The language of photography. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1978, 1981.
  • Anne Leier (text), Thomas Sandberg (photos): Mecklenburg, journey through the land of lakes and avenues. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-7672-1114-9
  • Thomas Sandberg, Jürgen Leinemann (text): Gerhard Schröder - A photo report. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-89602-194-X
  • Thomas Sandberg: "Die Judenschule" self-published, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-032974-6
  • Thomas Sandberg: "Memory of Ahrenshoop" Thomas Sandberg Publishing, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-00-038080-8
  • Sibylle Bergemann u. a .: OSTKREUZ, agency of photographers. Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-910190-00-6
  • Sibylle Bergemann u. a .: Departure to Germany. Nicolai, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-87584-462-9
  • Kurt Weidemann: East sees West, West sees East - Germany in the spring of 1990. ed. v d. Daimler-Benz AG. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-89322-215-4
  • FC Gundlach: Split times . Pictures by East German photographers, 1987-1991. Richter, Düsseldorf 1991. ISBN 3-928762-02-8
  • Catalog book «Thomas Sandberg - Résonances», edited by Marc Barbey with a foreword by Christoph Tannert , 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Sandberg, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin